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Hello! Welcome to my blog. My name is Marianne and I live in Melbourne with my husband and our very fluffy cat, Babycat. (Who, at 7 years old, is hardly a kitten anymore but she will always be our baby!) I grew up in London and moved to Melbourne aged 22 for adventure and for love, which turned out to be a great idea as we are now happily married. I love vintage, especially the 1930s to the 1950s, and can skip happily over some of the 1960s to enjoy lots of that beautiful and otherworldly 1970s stuff. Here I write about my life in Melbourne and the things that interest me: clothes (especially of the vintage kind), beauty, makeup, food, interiors, travel, books, films (old ones please), going out, staying home, cocktails in bars, dinners in restaurants, breakfasts in cafes, walking in parks, biking down backstreets, taking photographs in conspicuous places, drinking coffee in bed, my endless love of platform shoes, and sometimes cats, too.

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Friday, 9 August 2013

the shoes of the week: black, pointy heels

Happy Friday! Ok, let's talk about... shoes!

For my week of wearing the black and white outfits, I mostly wore one pair of shoes, the black pointy heels. An all time classic, the clean, graphic look of this style complements both full skirts and pencil skirts, and works with just about everything. But... they're so different from what I usually wear. I love a round toe, a bit of a platform, and often there's an ankle strap... just so much easier to walk in!

Pointy toe vs. round toe; it's dividing!

I was surprised to find how much I enjoyed wearing these. I usually hate feeling the ground beneath my feet but I got used to it; I soon stopped wobbling on the skinny heel; and I found I really liked the simplicity of how they looked. Sleek and grown up. On the other hand, sometimes I'd look down and see those super pointy points and just want to soften them off a bit... and I liked to get back up on the platforms, too.

21 comments:

I love pointy toe shoes, but often they are toe squishers. I walked past a Clarks store the other day and saw lots of shoes I thought you'd like http://www.clarks.com.au/womens/heels.html (or maybe I"m WAY off base).

I'm actually a big fan of both pointy and roundy! But when it comes to heels, I definitely prefer a platform to a thin heel, it just feels more secure and supportive. As a rule though, I'm a flats girl :)

Hmm.. I'm torn, because to be honest, I normally prefer a round nose and a bit of a platform when it comes to my heels. But I must say that I kinda like the sophisticated look these black pointy shoes have, and after seeing them featured in your blog I noticed that (at the risk of sounding like an enormous copy-cat) I'm keeping an eye out for a pair when I'm shopping. ha! who would have thought? ;)

Round through and through. It doesn't have to be uber round per se, but given that I dress almost exclusively in looks from the 40s and 50s, round toes just seem to compliment most of my outfits from those decades so much better. That isn't to say I dislike or have never worn pointy toes, I do like and I have worn them, just that nearly all the shoes in my wardrobe these days have at least somewhat round toes.

I like round shoes, I am a U.S. size 10 in women's (which is BIG) so I don't like to make me feet look even larger! However, I like the look of pointy toes on other people, you look fab!Amiawww.teapotsandbelles.blogspot.com

Variety is the spice of life! So I like both pointy and round--what I really pay attention to is fit and wearability. I've moved far past the day when I'd tolerate unhappy feet for the sake of a lovely shoe. ;-) (I must say, I don't think I've ever seen you in a shoe I didn't adore...)